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NAMA 



peduncles equalling or shorter than the leaves. Calyx 5-parted, 

 rarely 6- or 7-parted; the lobes linear-lanceolate, occasionally un- 

 equal. Corolla campanulate o.r rotate deciduous, the stamens in- 

 serted on the base of its tube. Style 3-cleft at the apex. Disk 

 none. Ovary 1-celled: the narrow placentae projecting more or 

 less on incomplete half-dissepiments : ovules 20 or more on each 

 placenta. Capsule loculicidal, 15-20-seeded. Seeds pretty large 

 with a somewhat fleshy minutely reticulated testa. 



C. nana Raf. 1. c. Hesperochiron Californicus Watson. Leaves num- 

 erous in a rosulate radical tuft, broadly lanceolate, 1-3 inches long, 

 densely tomentose both sides, contracted below to a broad petiole : 

 peduncles slender, shorter than the leaves, pubescent, recurved in fruit : 

 calyx-lobes linear, 3-4 lines long, densely pubescent; corolla campanulate, 

 6-8 lines long, hairy within; its lobes shorter than the tube. On wet 

 banks and springy places, eastern Washington to California and Utah. 



C. pumila Greene Erythea ii. 193. Hesperochiron pumilus Porter- 

 Leaves several from the crown of a short usually branching rootstock, 

 lanceolate to spatulate, tapering below to a slender petiole, minutely 

 ciliate, otherwise glabrous : peduncles slender, 1-3 inches long, about 

 equalling the leaves, glabrous: sepals lanceolate, about 6 lines long, 

 minutely ciliate: corolla white to pUrple, rotate, often an inch broad; its 

 broad ovate lobes longer than the tube; the tube within and base of the 

 filaments pubescent. In wet places, eastern Washington to California 

 and Idaho. 



Tribe S Nameae B. & H. Gen. ii, 826. Leaves simple, alter- 

 nate or sometimes imperfectly opposite. Corolla imbricated in 

 the bud, not appendaged zvithin. Style 2-parted, the tips or stig- 

 mas commonly thickened or capitate. Ovary completely or in- 

 completely 2-celled. Capsule loculicidal; the valves bearing the 

 half dissepiments on their middle. Seeds with firm-freshy albu- 

 men. 



8 NAMA L. Gen. n. 317. 



Low herbs or suffrutescent plants of various habits : ours low 

 annuals with entire leaves and the flowers terminal or lateral or 

 in the forks of the stem. , Corolla funnelform or somewhat sal- 

 verform. Filaments and style filiform, more or less included, 

 Stamens commonly unequal and more or less unequally inserted. 

 Ovules numerous on the transverse lamelliform placentae which 

 approximate or cohere in the axis of the ovaty but separate in 

 the loculicidal dehiscence and are borne on the half-dissepiments 

 or half-valves of the capsule. Capsule membranaceous, the, valves 

 and placentae undivided. Seeds usually numerous. 



N. demissum Gray Proc. Am. Acad, viii, 283; Hirsute-pubescent to 

 hispid : stems diffuse or depressed, 2-4 inches long, dichotomously 

 branched : leaves linear-spatulate, 6-15 lines long, all or most of them 

 tapering into a petiole: flowers subsessile in the forks: sepals linear or 

 setaceous, 4 lines long: corolla purple, narrow-funnelform, about 6 lines 

 long: capsule short-oblong, 10^16-seeded : seeds oval or oblong. Dry 

 interior regions, Washington to California, Utah and Arizona. 

 9 ERIODICTYON Benth. Bot. Sulph. 35. 



Shrubby plants with alternate piniiately veined and finely re- 



